Final Cut Camera 2.0
Final Cut Camera 2.0 unlocks unprecedented recording capabilities on iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, the first smartphones capable of capturing ProRes RAW. This allows users to record pristine RAW data directly from the camera sensor for maximum creative freedom in post-production. The update also introduces open gate recording, which uses the full camera sensor to capture a wider field of view at resolutions greater than DCI 4K. This gives editors ultimate flexibility to reframe shots, stabilize footage, and set final aspect ratios, all without compromising image quality or performance.
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Final Cut Camera 2.0 also supports genlock, allowing creators to precisely synchronize iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max with other recording devices to the same reference signal, ensuring each frame is perfectly in sync. This technique lets creatives achieve professional, frame-accurate edits without hours of manual frame-by-frame alignment. Genlock API support is available to third parties and is already being used with the new Blackmagic Design Camera ProDock.
Leveraging the all-new Center Stage front camera available on iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max, Final Cut Camera 2.0 also allows users to capture horizontal or vertical orientation without rotating their iPhone.
Previously:
Update (2025-10-07): Jason Snell:
So, in the interest of reminding you: the Final Cut Pro for iPad/Final Cut Camera thing (note to Apple: you couldn’t give this system a clever brand name?) is pretty amazing. You can connect up to four iPhones to an iPad running Final Cut Pro and use the iPhones as remote cameras to record a live event, adjusting settings on the fly and ending up with a full-resolution multicam project ready to be edited.
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After moving around a lot of hotel furniture to try and get proper angles for a shot of me, a shot of Myke, and a two-shot of us both, we connected the iPhones to my iPad. While two of them connected immediately, the third iPhone wouldn’t connect no matter what we tried. We rebooted things, we disconnected and reconnected from both sides… nothing worked.
In the end, we decided to just use the iPad itself as a third camera.
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The edit went so smoothly that the entire 107-minute-long podcast was edited before I was halfway to Dallas. (I had expected that I’d need to export the project and edit it on my MacBook Pro, but I didn’t.)
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I wish they borrowed the recent Kino update for mic selection since some mics break, flooding videos with static
> Connectivity glitches aside, the entire process worked remarkably well.
Continuity, as an umbrella term, was introduced with 10.10 Yosemite, eleven years ago.
I literally just had this happen again. Took a screenshot on my phone. Pasted it into Teams in my Mac. In theory. In practice,
* Teams beachballed for ~20 seconds as it was presumably waiting on clipboard manager
* the clipboard showed a "pasting from iPhone" window
* at the end, Teams instead pasted… what was _previously_ in the clipboard, which luckily I didn't then automatically hit enter on
(Falling back to the old value after timeout seems very privacy-risky?)
And that's my experience with Continuity stuff all over the place. I think it _used _to be even worse, back in the 10.10-10.12 days, maybe, but it still fails about one time out of ten. Whether it's Universal Clipboard, or Handoff (to the point where I'd thought maybe iOS 26 or macOS 26 Tahoe had _removed_ the feature, but then it started working again?), or AirDrop, or all the other things.
Granted, my network setup is non-trivial; I have multiple VPN apps to dial into clients' networks, multiple Wi-Fi networks, sometimes Ethernet, sometimes hotspot, but at the end of the day, the question remains: why is it more reliably to
1. on the iPhone, upload the screenshot to the cloud
2. on the Mac, download the screenshot from the cloud
…than to transfer it directly? That doesn't compute on a logical sense.
(Having said that, this FCP + FCC feature sounds like another "when it works, it's fantastic" thing.
Too bad that, when it doesn't, there's not a whole lot you can do.)
@Sören That is my experience with Universal Clipboard, too. I think it’s peer-to-peer rather than uploading/downloading from the cloud. Maybe that’s why it’s less reliable.
